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Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#genius #mechanical #organic #reason #spirit

Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#always #deeply #dig #everywhere #infinities

Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#free #humanity #new #religion #set

Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#comes #criticizes #critique #everything #just

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#nonsensical #poem #poetic #probably #science

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#classical #correctly #difference #divine #division

The main thing is to know something and to say it. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#main #main thing #say #something #thing

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry? ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#philological #philosophical #poetic #poetry #rhetorical

The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#history #necessary #practically #realization #subject

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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